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Raghudon aka Raghu lives in Mumbai, India after having travelled a lot around the world. He also has a lot of friends who are nice and leave comments and nice things for him on this blogpage (get the hint??)
I am back to bloggging after a long time. Lets see how useful this avatar of the blog turns out to be1

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay (9th Deceber 2006)

Forgive me for not writing something original for some time. This was a nice piece sent to me and some of them looked atrociously funny! I hae put in my comments on some of these. I have a couple of ideas for the "latestest" blog entry but then by the time i am a bit free to pen them, those thoughts would have vaopurised like a camphor block subjected to a burning flame... lol (dont know whether I shoudl also include this in the below mentioned list :-) )

Also kind of reminds me of one college proncipal who used a statement like "He has to be kicked not with hands, but with feet" he was the most adorable principal there ever was who used to have a kids inquisitiveness and ask "mhanje " (meaning what?) for anything that he could not comprehend.Rags

He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.Joseph Romm, Washington

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station

The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.Russell Beland, Springfield

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.Roy Ashley, Washington

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.Chuck Smith, Woodbridge

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center. Russell Beland, Springfield

Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake Ken Krattenmaker, Landover Hills

Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.Unknown

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.Jack Bross, Chevy Chase

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring

Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man." Russell Beland, Springfield

Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.Jennifer Hart, Arlington

The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.Wayne Goode, Madison, Ala.